More hot weather , more blue clear skies, more heat distortion, less wind SE>3, everything I don,t want.
The only newcomer today was an adult Great Crested Grebe which slept out in the centre of the water the entire day not moving from the morning to the late afternoon watch with no signs of yesterdays Ruff, or should I say Reeve, to use the correct gender identification.
A full scope around the 4 shorelines before the heat shimmer took over produced a good count of waders with another wave of Dunlin moving in after the first wave of 19 moved on.
16 Dunlin
6 Redshank
14 Common Sandpiper
3 Oystercatcher
5 Lapwing
2 Snipe
3 Curlew
1 Ringed Plover
24 Mixed LBB and Herring gull
5 Black Headed gull
+ Canadas and Greylag with several young.
1 Gt Crested Grebe
BS